2012-2015 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Political Science (GPS)
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This plan outlines a four-year path to graduation. You are expected to satisfy all “success marker” courses, grades, and GPAs as specified. For part-time students and students needing to complete background material, this schedule represents the order in which courses should be taken. This suggested plan to four-year graduation does not replace regular advising appointments. Some course offerings may change.
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Total: 15 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better; Complete ENG 1100 with C or better Total: 15 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better Total: 16 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better; Complete one MTH course; Complete one LAN course; Complete PLS 2120 or PLS 2220 Term Four
- PLS Course - Political Science Area 2 Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- PLS Course - Political Science Area 3 Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- LAN 2020 - Intermediate Language II* Credit Hour(s): 3
- Minor Course - Minor Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- ENG 2100 - Research Writing and Argumentation Credit Hour(s): 3
Total: 15 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better; Complete ENG 2100 with C or better; Complete PLS 2120 and PLS 2220 Term Five
- PLS Course - Political Science Area 1 Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- PLS Course - Political Science Area 2 Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- QT Course - Qualitative Thinking Course** Credit Hour(s): 3
- Minor Course - Minor Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- CORE - Wright State Core Course Credit Hour(s): 3
Total: 15 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better Term Six
- PLS Course - Political Science Area 3 Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- PLS Elective - Political Science Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- QT Course - Quantitative Thinking Course** Credit Hour(s): 3
- Minor Course - Minor Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- Sci Course - Wright State Science Course Credit Hour(s): 4
Total: 16 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better; Complete 20 upper-level credits Term Seven
- PLS Elective - Political Science 4000-Level Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- PLS Elective - Political Science Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- Minor Course - Minor Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- Minor Course - Minor Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- GE General - Elective Credit Hour(s): 4
Total: 16 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better Term Eight
- PLS Elective - Political Science Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- PLS Elective - Political Science Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- PLS Elective - Political Science Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- GE - General Elective Credit Hour(s): 4
- GE - General Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
Total: 16 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.0 or better Note(s):
*Languages include Arabic (ARA), American Sign Language (ASL), Chinese (CHI), French (FR), German (GER), Greek (GR), Italian (ITA), Japanese (JPN), Latin (LAT), Russian (RUS), and Spanish (SPN). **Quantitative Thinking courses include COM 4490 , MUS 4140 (for Music majors only), PLS 2100 , SOC 3400 , SOC 3410 , SW 2910 , and URS 4980 ; Qualitative Thinking courses include PHL 2150 , PHL 2230 , PHL 4710 , and PHL 4720 . Program Description
Students of political science study governments: how they evolve, why they exist, the forms and social functions they assume, why they change, and who controls them. To understand governments, students of political science also study politics: how people behave in their relationship to government, what they do to influence government, how government attempts to influence people’s behavior and beliefs about what it does. Students of politics also must appreciate how cultural, historical, and economic forces affect the evolution of governments and mass political behavior. The Bachelor of Arts program in political science focuses on four areas of instruction: - American government, including legislative and executive institutions, political parties and interest groups, public administration, public opinion and elections, and state and urban government;
- public law, including constitutional law, criminal justice, civil liberties, and environmental law;
- International relations and comparative politics, including American foreign policy; European and Latin American governments; the Middle East, Russian, and Asian governments; African politics; national security policy; terrorism; and developing political systems;
- political philosophy, political ideologies, the history of political thought, political theory, and political analysis; and quantitative methods of political research.
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